Re: [Pgubook-readers] Chapt 5 - Heynow Create Files Exercise

[Emmet Ford]

> I took a look at the contents of "heynow.txt" with
> vi, which displays a bunch of numbers, seemingly
> the ASCII codes of the text I wrote


The editor decided that heynow.txt was a binary rather than a text file. 
You will notice, when looking at the file in vi, that there are some 
non-printable characters near the end of the file. If you remove those 
non-printable characters then cat does the right thing.

Your program is adding extraneous bytes to the output.


--Emmet Ford


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